Hook the bulb onto the fixture to turn on, unhook and rotate to turn off. This fixture is made for a standard FC16T9 circle shaped fluorescent light.

This piece reengages our relationship to the ubiquitous circle shaped fluorescent. Usually these bulbs are found inside ceiling fixtures in kitchens and bathrooms. (You know the ones that look like boobs.) They are hard to reach, annoying to maintain and often conceal the bulb itself.

With Circle Hook Light the light bulb is in plain view. Instead of using a wall switch to turn it on and off, it is controlled by hooking and unhooking the light from the fixture. It’s a lot like hanging up a coat.

Circle Hook Light is both functional design and sculpture. It is milled out of solid brass and has a polished finish. The custom spring loaded electronic connections are milled out of acrylic.

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(We make all of these custom so allow for some lead time on order. FC16T9 circline fluorescent bulb not included but available at any hardware store.) Please contact us if you are interested in purchasing ( cwandt[at]cwandt[dot]com ).

1Bit 1Hz CPU is a diagrammatic wall sculpture of a very simple, slow computer. By flicking a regular light switch, a single bit is processed at rate of one cycle per second to turn on and off a light.

dimensions: 4×4′ wall installation
materials: light switch, T12 fluorescent tube light, acrylic, electronics, 1Hz AC sync motor

i wish this was everywhere big all the time. loop.

pen on wood 12″x24″

24 switch pixel on wired blog

Pod Peel in the Montreal Gazette

Our goal with SailBritain.org was to make a super clean and easy to use site in one week. The site’s main page only has 7 big text-links, so you won’t get lost.

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A fixture for a standard F40T12 fluorescent tube light. The piece intentionally exposes the ballast, wires and electrical outlet required for the light to operate.

The light plugs directly into an outlet, requiring a user to plug and unplug to turn it on and off.

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A fluorescent light fixture is not meant to call attention to the ballast hidden inside of it that is required to operate. Most people don’t even know it is there or that standard household electricity needs to be altered in order for a fluorescent light to work. Is it possible to expose the ballast as part of the fixture so that it adds aesthetic value and also acknowledges its technological inner workings?

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For Keira Alexandra and her Grandpa,
Here we imagine manufacturing rituals.
with love from brooklyn,
cw&t&subshark

This watch is built with an automatic mechanical movement. There is no stem to set the hour hand or wind the mechanism. So if you want to change the time, remove the old string and add string in the appropriate holes to mark 12 o’clock, 6 o’clock or whatever combination you like. Over time, the accumulation of string leaves behind a history of your notations.

The Pursuit of Stillness is an interactive projection designed for Acconci Studio’s Corian Furniture Installation in the lobby of the Bronx Museum of the Arts. Acconci’s installation is part of year long series celebrating the Centennial Year of the Grand Concourse.

The software was written using Open Frameworks with openCV with Optical Flow. The application controls 25 high speed video loops, each mapped to a trigger position on the floor. The video was shot using a Casio Exilim EX-FH20 and the camera tracking uses an overhead PS3 camera.

by CW&T (Che-Wei Wang and Taylor Levy)

Pursuit of Stillness – CW&T from Taylor Levy on Vimeo.

The Pursuit of Stillness from Taylor Levy on Vimeo.